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"It’s disappointing when you come home in late August, playing another first-place team, a team you could potentially play in the playoffs. If you have 20,000 people here, that’s not something you are excited about. "

-- White Sox P Jake Peavy, on the turnout for the team's series against the Yankees this week at U.S. Cellular Field. (CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, 8/23)

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Finchem said event has been a success because both fans, golfers are into it

The sixth edition of the PGA Tour FedExCup playoffs began today with The Barclays being played at Bethpage Black, and five years into the playoffs, it can be said that the “scheme originally greeted with skepticism has worked on almost all counts,” according to Ron Sirak of GOLF WORLD. The “greatest impact is that it created four high-quality events at the post-majors time of the year when the big names had previously gone fishing.” It is "compelling and meaningful golf at a time when the end of baseball and the beginning of football rule the sports world.” The FedExCup has become a “catalyst for the most dramatic change in the history of the PGA Tour -- a 12-month season that begins in October after the ...